Agenda for Regular Meeting

February 21, 2018

This will be a special homecoming meeting. Our special guest will be Marta Penzar our incoming exchange student from Croatia during the 2013-2014 Rotary year. Those of you who have never met Marta, are in for a special treat. This young lady speaks better English than most Americans and listening to her you would wonder, from what part of the states she is from. All of our students are special but Marta's poise as a high school student along with her friendly smile and charming personality made her special. Make sure you come to the meeting and hear her tell was what she has been up to for the last 3 plus years. I promise you will be glad to meet her.

But wait there's more... If you like bright, charming and exceptional young people, next up on the agenda will be two current P.T. High School students in attendance as our guests to receive the February Sunrise Rotary Students of the Month award.

Just in case meeting young folks who will allow you to feel more confident that the future of our country and the world is being turned over to able hands, we have a program from one of the many local charitable programs we support. Bekka Bloom will present us with information about Dove House, an organization which assists and shelters victims of domestic abuse.

Guests and prospective members are always welcome at our meeting and this one is really special.

Sunrise Rotary Helps Local Charity

You see us at fund raisers selling hot dogs and tickets for Running of the Balls, you come to our homes for dinner, participate in our golf tournament and much more. After we raise the money doing those work projects, then we seek ways to give it all away. Some of it goes to international projects, like the eradication of polio and bringing clean water and sanitation facilities to third world countries. Perhaps those kinds of charitable giving is that for which Rotary is best known. However, our club makes sure that the majority of our donations go to local organizations, right here in Port Townsend and Jefferson county. In the past we have funded programs like providing a free, hard bound, full color, illustrated dictionary for every third grade student in the county(photo at left shows books being readied for distribution). ...

A Four dollar stove is life changing

Nearly anyone can have children. It is usually pretty easy. Some, if they can’t do it the easy way or if they just love kids so much, they open their homes to children who will become theirs. Those are special people! Then there are those that go even farther to adopt children from places and cultures far away. Those, one might argue are even more special and there will be a special place awaiting them in heaven. But what superlatives can be used to describe folks who adopt grandmothers and their charges from a slowly healing, war torn nation filled with orphaned children being raised by the “Grandmothers”? That describes John and Toni Jordan, Rotarians from Victoria, Canada. John has visited our club on at least two occasions to tell of his work in Rwanda and the desperate need that remains after the Genocide ...